Thousands of Dutch marched the streets of Amsterdam in a demonstration against racism and discrimination. The protest was also against recent statements by Geert Wilders about Moroccans to a group of supporters at a local election rally in The Hague.

Mitrovica, the northern city of Kosovo, was the scene of a violent encounter last week between Serb protesters and UN police/KFOR troops. At stake was the by Serbs occupied court house . KFOR planned to remove all the occupiers from the court house and arrest them in the early morning of Monday 17 March, exactly four years after the eruption of violence referred to as the March 2004 riots. It resulted in one dead Ukraine police officer and dozens of wounded on both sides. KFOR was furious.